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fighting fights-and-fighting retailers
The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard. Steve Gross
fighting delicate-life needs
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself? Brandon Sanderson
fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting numbers mind
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. Ayn Rand
fighting slaying foe
Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe? Brian Jacques
fighting feel-good making-a-difference
It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you. Brenda Strong
fighting challenges tasks
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds. Jane Hamilton
fighting feet missing
I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked. Channing Tatum
fighting people growth
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight. Ban Ki-moon
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science supposing-that forever
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
science would-be mould
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin
science writer
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
science deities evolution
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! Edward Young
science lines way
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity. Aristotle
science two fire
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
science
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. Seth MacFarlane
science men doe
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. Stephen Jay Gould
engineering engineers irrationality
An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
engineering mind ridicule
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far. Alfred P. Sloan
engineering manhattan infrastructure
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. Andrew Cuomo
engineering aviation human-life
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. Simon Newcomb
engineering profession
Engineering is a great profession. Herbert Hoover
engineering british given
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget. Evan Davis
engineering may strive
To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead. Fyodor Dostoevsky
engineering discipline effort
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today. Fred Brooks
engineering magic world
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world. Elon Musk